Please do! The sticky notes was all Morgan's idea! Most on my ideas were written down, but seeing them on the window really helped me realise how many I actually had 😅
This was such a fun visit, I should come back soon and admire the finished room in its full glory!! You put in so much hard work, now you get to enjoy it 💕
Yes yes that would be an amazing video and it would be so fun to watch you guys go on a field trip :) shop for fabic and go have an afternoon tea in your lovely costumes :) :) :)
I know this is not the point of the video, but I rewatched Morgan fading into frame at 7:03 several times, just to confirm that yes, she is a witch. 😂😂
After being in my house about 25 years and my kids grown, my husband agreed to make the master bedroom my sewing room! I am so excited! We moved to what was my daughter’s room that is smaller and has the only walk-in closet in the house. Now my stuff that was ALL OVER the house is coming in. Like you, it was more than I thought (don’t tell hubby I admitted that). I can’t settle in because we pulled up the carpet and now just have the slab floor. Everything will have to come out when I can afford the new flooring. It’s a long process that I hope I live to finish! :-)
Screw the floor... I would find some inexpensive area rugs and put them where I walk most and build my sewing room! You don't see on the floor, just do it and worry about floor covering later.
June's Journey is giving me strong Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries vibes and I'm into it ^_^ The room looks so satisfyingly organised and I was especially tickled to see the full set of Tortall books on the bookcase scan!
Marika your sewing room looks awesome! I love the flowers and fairy lights decorating the room. You and your hubby are DIY machines making use of every inch of space. Great job to you, Morgan and your hubby.
It turned out beautifully in the end! Having an organised room is so satisfying, and it looks so workable! (Also the filming wiggle is definitely a thing I do it too)
I've been trying to...just do something with my sewing room since it's been a war zone ever since I moved into my current house. Watching you and Morgan take everything out to start with may have to be the way I get mine worked on. The chaos of the piles is so overwhelming
Voldemort's Heart when I’m doing deep cleaning/organizing I always say it has to get worse before it can get better. It helps me psychologically to start with a clean slate and room to organize. I’m not very good at organizing and cleaning, so take it for what it’s worth, but when we were moving from the house we’d lived in for 12 years, that was the only way I could get anything done.
Morgan is truly magical in all her endeavors! It also gives me hope that my innate tendency to make clutter expand to multiples of exponentials beyond the actual physical space available, like you, yourself! There’s hope! My “sewing room” is actually my library plus closet that was, once, organized & neat, but eventually became a mouse haven. Given that I have a phobia around mice/rats, you may understand that I haven’t even looked into the closet for many years. I have engaged a housekeeper, becoming her 4th or 5th job which spans a wide area of opportunity. From working in a Lab doing interesting things sorting ore samples from mining all the way to helping me out! If you want something done, get a busy woman to assist!
Everyone needs a friend like Morgan to come help them. I know I really could use one! Love your sewing room you have given me some ideas for mine. You're the first person I've seen put vent holes on our Arning board but they made. I've only seen the vents on the pre-bought ones good idea. I'm jealous of Morgan's braids, One of her braids is as thick as all of my hair braided together. My hair is very fine and thin. I've played June's Journey for quite a while level 200. They just have a couple problems that the need to fix, game advertisement kicking you out of the game is one. I don't know how you could play on your phone I play it on my iPad, bigger is better!
I vented my ironing table! I tend to love the steam burst function on my iron and knew that it could cause some real moisture problems down the line to not have a way for that moisture to evaporate.
The room turned out great! I especially love how you put the sewing table together so it could roll around on casters. That's so clever! Hope you enjoy your newly organized space for a long time to come. Looks like you're gonna be very busy in there for quite some time. Best of luck with all the projects you have planned! 🤗
Greetings from Sydney, Australia. I love June's Journey - it is my favourite game. But I also love watching you, Morgan, Bernadette, Noelle and Angela. I too, love to make historical costumes but I am in no way as good as you five are. Love your vids.
Having a friend - who knows what it is you are sorting - can be a big part of getting that initial wave of cleaning/organizing/purging done. Big thumbs up to you and Morgan for teaming up. You've inspired me to bring a friend in to help me with my paper crafting room.
Yay 3 bedroom houses! Wow. The before pictures looks so like mine. Including the bookshelf. Everyone needs a beautifully organized friend like Morgan. Love your pegboard. So many of the same books. I adore Tamora Pierce. You can never have too many shelves. Good luck with the bra. I tried one...I'll have to try again. The space looks like a wonderful space to create. Thanks for sharing!
It must feel amazing to have that sewing room all clean and organized. Before we bought our house last year, I once was completely unorganized and had aewing stuff hidden in various nooks and crannies. I started off on a card table in my bedroom, then graduated to a sewing cabinet in the dining room where I was able to store my sewing machine. When we moved into our house I immediately started setting up camp in our bonus room (office?) Just off off our bedroom. I have slowly been working on making it my own little space for a while. My husband surprised me with a couple of thrifted tables for my sewing last year for my birthday. It gave me a lot more space to work with also a lot more places to store things. That's when I realized just how much stuff I had. Family and friends had been giving me their old stuff for a while. Various notions, patterns, left over & unused fabric etc, in addition to the stuff I had accumulated for various projects I never got around too. I had tubs and tubs of stuff. When the whole Marie Kondo bug took over I got busy just going through all the tubs of stuff. I made a huge mess and even worried I lost one of my cats who had been over seeing my progress in one of the boxes that went to the Salvation Army. I later found her sleeping in the closet where I discovered yet another box of sewing stuff. Two days later, I was exhausted, yet at the same time I felt exhilarated. I had managed to go through everything and was ready to start organizing. Only problem was I am not an organized person. I must have missed that class growing up. I ended up with just two big tubs of fabric and several boxes of notions and a couple sewing boxes that held various tools and machine feet. After a while of using my space I figured out what I would like where and made it happen. New ironing board, check, a set of drawers for my tools that i need with in reach, check, a chair that doesn't kill my back to sit in, double check. It was good and I felt like i could breath and be creative in there. Mist recently my faithful old Singer quite working and becuase of her age it was cheaper to retire her to her case (for now anyways) and get a new one. With a new machine on the table I realized I needed to do another overhaul. I recently appropriated a broken bookshelf (curiosity of my climbing 4 yr old) and repurposed it for my sewing room. I found I had a place to store all my books and various other things that had been sitting in boxes patiently waiting for a home. That started off a bigger overhaul than I had planned but in the end it was worth it. It freed up more space on my tables to trace things out on. I eventually hope to get a cutting table in there. I thought I wanted a peg board, but now I'm not so sure. I'm still working on getting a cabinet to store my fabric in or at least most of it. That will free up the spaces under my sewing tables so I can put a storage system for the projects I'm roaring through. Maybe then i wont have so many UFOs. But since the last overhaul I have really felt the creative juices start flowing again. I've been working through my stash. I have some more ideas for history bounding. I'm hoping some day i will get to making my own RU-vid videos. It's so inspiring to see everyone giving their own sewing spaces an overhaul. Gives me ideas on organization and how to make the most of my space. It was fun to see Morgan there helping you. I briefly wondered if she was wearing her corset and expecting her to say she didn't die 😉😂😂 BTW I am a Huge Mercedes Lackey fan and just squealed in delight when i saw the God Mother series on your book case. 😁😁 Anyways thanks for showing off your improved sewing room. ❤❤
That Tamora Pierce Collection tho! I met her 2 years ago at Emerald City Comic Con and had her sign my very old and battered OG copy of In the Realms of the Gods. She was so pleasant and we chatted briefly about hot guys. Hilarious woman. Great job on your de-stash. I am looking forward to mine in April!
I dream of having my own craft room. Some day I will! i love that your table moves, and is corked - great idea. I also didnt realise the height difference between you and Morgan - reminds me of myself and one of my short friends :P
The dancing outtake at the end is PURE GOLD! Your room is looking great, and it must have been such a huge boost to have a good friend come and help you get past the initial uuuuuuugh of having to go through everything. Now you can feel happy and productive instead of weighed down by clutter!
it has inspired me, but I'm about to pack up my sewing room, ready to move from Australia, back to New Zealand, in a couple of months. I'll keep this in my saved videos, for when I'm setting up my new sewing room.
I didn't know balls actually happened here in BC! I wouldn't have the means to go, or anything to wear but I can't wait to see/hear how it goes from you!
How sweet of Morgan to come over and help!😇 Ah and books! Glorious book!😁 I love cork. I have an old notice board that I use for small craft thing. That's a good idea actually using it as a work top. I'd love to try that!😇 And the let board is beautiful!😇
How wonderful to have your world all organized!! Truly the best to have a bestie to come and help is such an amazing way! Enjoy your new space you call your own.
I love the sewing room makeovers! I've watched and re-watched Bernadette's and Morgan's and will probably be re-watching this one as well. Several times.... Lovely to just get some inspiration and to dream a little while I'm counting down the days (well, years at this point) till I'll be able to set up my own little haven of creativity...
I love your peg board. I'm 72 and I just got my first sewing room, that I don't have to share. It's small, but it has doors and windows and it's my Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh room. It isn't completely organized yet. I inherited all of my Mom's sewing supplies fabrics and UFO"s. I've only had it for 2 years, but I will get it done. Congratulations on your sewing room.
I'm in the middle of sorting out my sewing/crafting space after a move. I love some of your ideas and I will be unashamedly stealing them (I especially love the painting on your peg board - no reason why practical can't be pretty too). As you scanned across your bookshelves I was so excited to see books by some of my favourite authors.
Boy I thought my library was eclectic lol but then again if I had everything in my library that I wanted, it'd look like the local used book store lol and be likely twice the size, too lol btw, POINTS DOWN on everything sharp, so that you don't slice your hands open while you're looking for something (I say that because I saw your thread clippers sitting in one of the buckets with the pointy ends up lol) btw, I LOVE the fact you have Lucado sitting next to Zelda on the shelf lol I used to have a digital copy of his library, but it's far out of date now and I can't seem to find the discs for it anymore either, so I'm gonna have to splurge on some hard copies to replace it (and likely several more shelves, too lol). And I wish I could find my copy of that triple-set I had of Swindoll's, too, but I don't remember to whom I lent it, or when lol I am also in the same boat now that you were last fall, as we just moved the kids' rooms around and put both girls into the big bedroom upstairs and my son into the small bedroom upstairs, giving me the old spare bedroom to use as my new sewing room, so that I'm no longer squished into a corner of the basement between the mountain of kids' toys and the mountain of things needed to be sorted sitting on top of the couch that needs to go out in pieces (it's a hide-a-bed from the mid-60s and weighs about 10 pounds less than a baby grand piano without the mattress lol). So I'm guessing at some point in the next couple months I'm going to be heading over to the hardware store for a few supplies to build some shelves, a proper cutting table, and a fold-down system for the ironing board. It should be a blast to build with a 2yo running around attempting to help lol
Our sewing room is the dining room currently. Someday we are planning on having a huge studio with an attached apartment. Only time will tell. Right now we keep our fabric in bins out in our building/shop and bring it in as needed. It's not ideal, but it works. Absolutely love your crosstitch rose painting! It was really fun to watch in timelapse. Also you and Morgan are precious!
Having a dedicated space that is organized is the best feeling in the world! I just finished updating my sewing room with new furniture, and it's so inspiring now. How much fun to have Morgan able to join you to help. I'm just a bit jealous of that! ❤️❤️❤️
I thoroughly enjoyed your tour. I too have just acquired a new area in my home for my “ Design Studio “........unused dining room. I had so much fun creating my wall area.......surrounding book shelves......machine station......etc......the only thing left to do is cover the surface of my 4’x8’ planning/sewing table. Your space looks amazing.😊 New subscriber and happy to have found your channel. 🌹
Morgan is the super star!!!! Friendships are the best... especially when its genuine and fully unconditional. But the whole room is amazing. My faves are the table (hubby brownie points!!!) and the peg board with the threads. Just amazing. Cant wait to see what projects you BUST out ... jejeje.
It looks wonderful, and the joy of a tidy sewing room is that you can just get straight to the creating without feeling guilty and like you ought to be doing the chores! I have pretty close to my dream sewing room at the moment although in an ideal world it would be big enough to have a cutting table rather than having to hike the dining room table up on ikea footstools every time I want to cut out - my biggest fear is that at some point the children are going to decide that they don’t want to share a room anymore and then bye-bye my sewing space!!
You must be ecstatic to have your cutting and ironing tables made to the right height. It makes such a difference! I just stuck some 6x6’s under my kitchen table legs so I could scheme and work without getting a sore back. Thanks for the reminder to customize things when I do my room makeover this summer! -wave from Gibsons
Great job on your sewing room! I’m watching it as I sort my huge stash of fabrics during my sewing room organizing and redo. With you in spirit. Always awesome to have a great friend help you stay on track.
As someone who works at Fabricland, that bolt label 10/10 looks like a Fabricland bolt label. I can clock that from a km away. Haha. I adore this clean up and am in the process of doing something similar at my place. :)
I learned a great way to organize patterns from a professional designer and have use it ever sense. Take all pattern pieces and instruction sheets out of the pattern envelope. Put all the pieces in a brown mailing envelope that is the same size as the pattern envelope. Label with the pattern number and brand. Put in numerical order in cardboard pattern boxes labeled with the pattern number range in each box. Then take all the pattern envelopes and put them in plastic three ring binder sleeves sorting each binder by the type of pattern. Decorations, children’s, women’s casual, etc. That way you can grab a binder, quickly go thru the pattern sleeves containing the original envelopes and when you choose the pattern you want you can go to the correct box to retrieve the actual pattern pieces. The boxes can be stored anywhere in a closet or garage saving space in the sewing room.
Oh congratulations, that really was a mega big job to do and fantastic that Morgan helped you, plus gave you homework hehe. It's so great to be able to breath creatively. I am sure you will be even more inspired now that you have everything organised and no need to climb over things any more. I created my own permanent sewing/art space last year and it really is a joy to be in.
Thx for sharing your sewing room redo. Suggest you find an office chair in a used office furniture store. I was lucky to find a chair with arms that move up and down. It has great back support. For long sitting sessions, it is a great back saver for this 75 yrs young quilter.
Oh of course you're going to the Jane Austen ball in Victoria. I almost bought tickets back around Christmas but I changed my mind at the last minute. Been thinking about it ever since, but knowing they you're going makes it so much more tempting! Love the sewing room by the way, so gorgeous and organized
Hi Marika! I'm Elizabeth in Tennessee, and this was one of your best videos! We are somewhat in the process of remodelling our master bathroom, as well as my craft room! I love seeing sewing room tours, and how you use the space because I always get good ideas. I also want to say that your Constellation ballgown was one of the most beautiful and fascinatingly intricate creations I've ever seen! I especially love that the constellations on the sleeve match your family's star signs! That was so sweet!
I feel like I'm need of some tidying. Your before had me stressing. I don't know how you were able to go in there and create. I would get so overwhelmed! Great job!
It’s so much easier to do these things with a friend! My sister is ruthless on cleaning. She always asks me, “Are you really going to use this again!” She is minimalist and I’m sentimental, so between the two of us we hit a happy medium. Edited to add, I gave a happy (though fairly silent due to sleeping kids) squeak when I saw your manga!
I very much agree! There were many times where I hesitated about keeping something and Morgan asked if I actually wanted it(most if the time it went in the goodbye pile). Having someone with no ties to items when you go through things make such a difference! I read so much manga growing up! Tokyo Mew Mew was the one that got me started! And Fishigi Yuugi was one of my first animes.
Oh! I haven’t read that manga yet! My favorites are Skip Beat, Library Wars, and Special A. I’ll have to read that one next. I’ll check out the anime as well!
Wowza! Very beautiful, and looking at your bookcase is like looking at the twin of mine. Right now I sew out of a Mason jar and one little box. But someday I'd live to have a sewing room like this!
Haya, really enjoyable watching you, Morgan & your hubby change & rearrange your sewing room, looks great. I was going to make myself a larger pressing/ironing board as well. Thanku for sharing.
Good job on the reorganization. Great to have help that will direct and suggest! Buttons and snaps in the drawer: Those little Dollar Tree drawer organizer things. I have some in my kitchen drawers and some in my sewing drawers. There are various sizes, 2", 3", bigger... Diane Gabaldon....Outlander starts this weekend!!
All of this is delightful, but since you did a book tour here, it feels like the right place to say that I get a kick out of seeing all your Tamora Pierce books in all your videos. She's a favorite of mine!
Your sewing room looks so good now! Having an organized space always makes me feel more creative. Can’t wait to see what all you accomplish this year! You costubers have created such a nice little community, it’s great to see you all lifting each other up. I enjoy seeing you guys collaborating and shouting each other out in your videos.
Your sewing room turned out beautifully! Great way to use your space by putting your tables on wheels, and definitely with the adjustable height on them (for us tall ladies - 5'10 1/2" here, lol). I hope it has been practical for you as well, and I really look forward to seeing your next creations!
I currently sew in the "dinning/guest romm to be" and will move under the roof later so I kind of don't want to decorate but I really want to decorate now with millions of fairy lights now. Still not quite sure how I want to set up my sewing table once the L-shaped office desk is out of the way. You got me thinking A LOT right now :) Love the moveable cutting desk!
I have sewing room envy - sadly I live in a 1 bed apartment so my minimal fabric ends up in the same drawer as my bed linen, sewing supplies are limited to a pretty box and luckily I have a 1909 singer sewing machine which is a decorative item in my living room.
Try to raise your bed and utilise the space with drawers for your fabric stash. It helped me a lot. Small spaces is tricky, use all your vertical space. Good luck 🌸
Lorna & Dave I do have the lift up type bed with the storage area in the divan space unfortunately that’s filled up with ad hoc stuff like photograph albums, technology boxes (🤷♀️) etc. Currently working on how to declutter 40 years of crap.
I don't have a sewing room yet, but I have indulged in some hardcore planning for the hypothetical day when I have the spare room, time and money. I have used PowerPoint to create scaled 2D models of various pieces of furniture/frankensteined IKEA creations that I would like for my room and then basically dropped those models into hypothetical scaled floor plans. I have also calculated the approximate cost of each floor plan in an overly detailed Excel spreadsheet.
Thank you for sharing your sewing room organizing. Such an inspiration 😄 It is Sunday morning in Stockholm and I will start organizing my sewing room right now.
